| Balanus Temporal range:
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| Balanus perforatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| (unranked): | Sessilia |
| Order: | Balanomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Balanoidea |
| Family: | Balanidae |
| Genus: | Balanus da Costa, 1778 |
| Type species | |
| Balanus balanus | |
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Balanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae of the subphylum Crustacea.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic to the Quaternary periods (age range: from 189.6 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[1]
- ^ "Fossilworks". Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.